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#1 ·
So this is my 3rd year playing in a orchestra . I am the woodwind specialist so I play flutes , Clarinet and sax . The soprano works really well too with the Klezmer music . I am not very religious so this is a gig and fun too. Four days two this week and
two next week

Dogster
 
#3 ·
So this is my 3rd year playing in a orchestra . I am the woodwind specialist so I play flutes , Clarinet and sax . The soprano works really well too with the Klezmer music . I am not very religious so this is a gig and fun too. Four days two this week and
two next week

Dogster
I wonder if you would happen to have any Klezmer charts that you would be willing to share with me. I have only ever been able to find a bare handful and would love more to play on soprano. Those I have are:

A Nacht In Gan Eydn
Beckerman's Hora
Chusen Kala Mazeltov
Odessa Bulgarish #1

plus two moldy chestnuts

Hava Nagila -- I call it "Have an Aguila", after the Colombian beer.
Bei Mir Bistu Shein

Any help would be appreciated. Who knows, if I got good enough with a large enough repertoire I could get a gig playing a Bar Mitzvah. Here in Spain they're as plentiful as polka dot unicorns. I have a matching yarmulka that I can wear just for the occasion. :bluewink:

Seriously, though it's just for my own pleasure, if you can help, I'd appreciate it.
 
#5 ·
LOL.

Well it certainly makes for fewer chords and scales to memorize and I just love those different variations on the harmonic minor, like the double harmonic minor and the Fregish harmonic minor. Not that the music is easy to play but at least the scales beat playing with rock bands in B and E. I went to hear a band the other night and almost every song was in E. My left pinky had a contact sprain by the end of the night just from being there. :bluewink:

Here you just need to be able to play fast, bend notes to get that cry in your sound, and have the rhythmic feel for it. Easy.....not so much.

 
#11 ·
Thanks and the same to you. I am non-religious and don't follow these things, but the wish is the same regardless.
 
#13 ·
No, nothing to do with holidays or religion. I just like the music and want to play it just for fun.
 
#14 ·
I'm about as far from a Chabadnik as you can get, but The Chabadniks would make a good name for a Klezmer-Jazz group. :bluewink2:
 
#15 ·
Klezmer is so popular these days that the majority of people playing it aren't even remotely Jewish let alone being pious or simply religious or completely agnostic or a mix of all of those!

This Dutch band is called Digojim ( Di ***** ! The name says it as it more or less is)



A very healthy, peaceful and auspicious 5775 to everyone everywhere.
 
#20 ·
Klezmer is so popular these days that the majority of people playing it aren't even remotely Jewish let alone being pious or simply religious or completely agnostic or a mix of all of those!<...>
That doesn't surprise me. I'm an Italian-American guy and I played in an African-American blues band. I've seen non-hispanic people play in Salsa bands. I've seen African-American and Arab-American people playing music written by Europeans in Symphony Orchestras. When on the cruise ships I played for a Cuban-American wedding reception and they made us honorary Latinos. On the same ship the Reggae band told us we were the first white duo that played Reggae music right. My Jewish in-law plays Easter services in a couple of different Christian churches. I've never played Klezmer music, but I think it would be fun.

Music crosses ethnic boundaries and thus is truly the universal language.

So, "Why not?" - if you like the music, and can do it, it's all good.

Notes
 
#16 ·
I like these guys.



Of course you don't have to be Jewish, just grow a beard and put on a hat and coat that give that Shtetl look and you're good to go.....as long as you can play the music. Without getting into history and/or politics, it is disturbing to note that in Poland, a country which has no Jews because they were almost all exterminated and those few that remained alive were expelled during the Communist years, they have Yiddish music, Yiddish theater, Yiddish Cultural Museums for the tourists, but every bit of it is run and performed by Poles who are not Jews. Kind of a Yiddish Minstrel Show concept really. :evil:
 
#17 ·
The Yiddish musical culture has spread also among Jews of completely different traditions and even Sephardim or Italian Jews ( the original Italian community or Rome, for example, is neither of Sephardi nor Ashkenazi origin) dance with Klezmer music or even sing in a language that is very alien to them.
 
#23 ·
Hart was a really sweet guy and played bari and flute all his life. I never saw him after.I left Wisconsin in 70, but it was.sad just the same to read of his death. He was.younger than me too which is sad.

I think the beauty of who he was as a person is reflected in the way his friends.and.family sent him off. People who have impacted our lives.should be honored in that way out of respect and love IMO.
 
#24 ·
notes_norton wrote "Music crosses ethnic boundaries and thus is truly the universal language."

I think that's the key thing, and it's a beautiful thing. As musicians we truly have the potential to be ambassadors of peace and goodwill. Jewish, Gypsy and other Eastern European musicians all played together and their musical sensibilities cross-pollinated to produce what we now identify as klezmer music. Similar to today, working musicians were often on the margins of society, and the same dance band might play at a Jewish wedding one day and for a Polish noble the next.

Besides crossing cultural divides, as musicians we have another invaluable skill: the ability to listen. We all know that the first step in making music is listening, and this is a talent of incalculable worth. As Thich Nhat Hahn has said, "the purpose of deep listening is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, anything is possible."

Musicians can be the first to build bridges over the most difficult divides. In Israel, Jewish/Arab bands like Bustan Abraham and Sheva have played together as friends and given a public message of peace and hope in the most difficult of times. Israeli singer Yasmin Levy has performed with (among many others) Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek (who plays the double reed Zurna, flute Ney, and other woodwinds and instruments).

As John Coltrane is reported to have said, "For us, the whole globe is community." My wish for this New Year is to hear 'Trane's vision of "peace, love, and perfection throughout all creation" continue to sound forth with ever increasing strength!
 
#30 ·
I got an invite from the Chabad rabbi. I think his premise is that you have to atone forward.

"The day is the most solemn of the year, yet an undertone of joy suffuses it. A joy that revels in our connection with our Creator and expresses confidence that, as the doors of judgment close, our prayers will be accepted and we will be granted a year of goodness, life, health and happiness."

Namaste
 
#31 ·
"The day is the most solemn of the year, yet an undertone of joy suffuses it."
I thought it was the other way around -- in the midst of joy or good fortune, one should feel guilty. Or maybe that's Catholicism. I get my heritages mixed up.
 
#33 ·
I don't need a day of atonement because I'm not atonal but melodic. That's what being Reformed is about,giving up atonenent.

And I prefer to slow rather than fast. You live longer that way because fasting is bad for your health. If I fast more than 190 bpm, I get dizzy and blow clams, which are not Kosher whether you are religious or not.
 
#34 ·
I just attended the service streamed from CentralSynagogue.org.

Beautiful Reform service. Fine music, Asian woman rabbi, new Cantor, sermon based on Sondheim musical 'in to the Woods' and a fair amount of atonement but not like the Orthodoxy. Still, you'd be surprised at how much sinning we do on a day to day basis by their rule book. It is easy to understand why many boycott.

Good thing I had a big lunch at the Su****eria.
 
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